ChemEnv : A Fast and Robust Coordination Environment Identification Too
Publication Type
Journal Article
Date Published
12/2019
Authors
Waroquiers, David, Janine George, Matthew Horton, Stephan Schenk, Kristin A Persson, Gian-Marco Rignanese, Xavier Gonze, Geoffroy Hautier
DOI
Abstract
Coordination or local environments have been used to describe, analyze, and understand crystal structures for more than a century. Here, we present a new tool called ChemEnv, which can identify coordination environments in a fast and robust manner. In contrast to previous tools, the assessment of the coordination environments is not biased by small distortions of the crystal structure. Its robust and fast implementation enables the analysis of large databases of structures. The code is available open source within the pymatgen package and the software can as well be used through a web app available on http://crystaltoolkit.org through the Materials Project.
Year of Publication
2019